I'm only giving this 4 stars because I'm not 100% sure I loved it. I found myself confused at times, but utterly fascinated. Binti is from a very private/isolated tribe on Earth called the Himba. She is extremely intelligent and talented and has been accepted into the best University in the gala...
Another book because of the Hugo Ballot. I started reading the third book in this sequence and found myself hopelessly lost (which is going to count against it in my rankings, if it comes down to two stories that I liked and one didn't need me to read the others, yeah that's going to count). On the...
Well I will say that this and the next two books in this series are fairly short. So if you are interested in some science fiction with African origins this may be a nice little series to read if you get time. I did like this story, but thought the world-building could have been done a little bit be...
One of the things that keeps me reading Science Fiction is its ability not just to help me imagine possible futures but to look differently at the present. "Binti", which won both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novella, is an excellent example of a new wave of Future-Africa science fiction that...
Young Binti comes from an insular people (the Himba) who are dedicated to their land, their rituals, and science. She is the first of her people to be excepted to this big university and she’s willing to leave the bosom of her people to go experience this thing called ‘higher learning’. I really lik...
My first experience with Nnedi Okorafor was her novel Lagoon. To say that I wasn't impressed would be to put it mildly. That book made lots of promises and barely followed through on any of them. So, needless to say, it wasn't the best first impression that an author could make. I didn't know after ...
Not my cup of tea. Reading this for Diverse Voices square for Halloween Bingo. This is a short book. First quarter of the book is Binti internal dialogue on leving home for the firat time. The only way the readers know it is a sci-fi book is that he run away in a flying shuttle and landed in ...
The cover was perfect. On a related note, look at what the author had to say about the whitewashing of her covers. I loved how the acknowledgments described UAE as "futuristic ancient". It is such a perfect description because you get this old feel when you visit the place and then there are those...
I expected this to be rather near-future SF about a Himba girl, a girl from the Namib Desert, going to a university in space and all the cultural differences and difficulties she would experience there. Instead, this was far-future SF with a culture clash of a different kind. Also, the Himba have de...
So I'm going to do a short review, and a longer one behind a page cut. I'm going to spoil things behind the page cut, so there you go. I'm also going to get fairly long, so there you go. I was in a long, long book slump and the longer I was in the slump, the more depressed I got. The more...
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